Can I Be Candid?

Can I be candid for a moment? Yeah, it was a rhetorical question. You actually don’t have a choice. Most of us are on social media, with the exception of my parents, and see the daily shit show that is social media. Two of my favorite groups to follow on Facebook are our neighborhood groups and the state’s hockey forum. The groups are filled to the brim with people who are completely unglued. Consequently, some days its more entertaining than Netflix.

We’ve actually nicknamed our neighborhood as the restaurant killers. No matter which restaurant they try it’s either: not as good as it was in New York, crappy service, too expensive, decor bland, etc.. I could go on for days. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be in a hurry to open a restaurant near our neighborhood. We recently have a restaurant open up near us and lots of our neighbors went to the soft opening. Oh the diatribes that followed about all the glitches they encountered. Apparently, they completely missing the fact that it was “soft opening.”

From time to time people will make ad hominem attacks on HOA board members, which are unfounded given their volunteers. There’s one guy in our neighborhood that blasts the board on the page if the pool deck is dirtier than he’d like or the plants are overgrown. Fortunately, he’s kind enough to post photos. I guess people who aren’t hockey moms have a lot more time on their hands. I can’t comprehend how he has time to do these things, but whatever. They also like to blame renters for property damage or stolen property. Oftentimes, their kids caused the damage or the “stolen” property was misplaced. What makes these pages so puzzling is that our neighbors are incredible, so confusing.

On to the hockey forum, it is a complete and utter gong show at times. Again people go on the page and call out organizations or worse people by name. If you have a problem with someone, why wouldn’t you address it to them instead of blasting them on a Facebook page? It’s fucking cowardly. As for calling out organizations, it’s not always uncalled for, but seriously have your facts together first. Lastly, if you don’t like the rules of the league, take it up with the league. After all, the organizations do not own the rules and regulations, the league does. Tonight’s I’ll be toggling back between NetFlix and the utter disaster that is the hockey forum. It should be a night full of laughs.

Tonight’s song, very apropos that the disaster that is the hockey forum, performed by the 4 Non Blondes is “What’s Going On?” I’m really stuck in the 90s this month… I remember this song fondly as I would watch the video at my great uncle’s house in California. The song always reminds me of that wonderful trip.